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The Waterboy

Bend middle schooler’s African roots inspire him to bring clean water to communities in need

Ben Yundt’s earliest childhood memories won’t fade easily. Now a seventh-grader at Bend’s Pacific Crest Middle School, Ben vividly recalls his days growing up at an orphanage in the West African city of Accra in Ghana. Before his time there, he lived on the streets of Accra. Not surprisingly, Ben’s childhood lacked life’s basic necessitiesโ€”including […]

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SlingShot Boomerangs Back to Bend

Documentary about clean water captures optimism

This is a documentary that is equal parts about the main character—Dean Kamen, a prolific inventor—and about a cause—clean water. Those two elements add up to create a film that is way bigger than the sum of its parts. The film was warmly received at the recent BendFilm Festival, where we caught up with producer […]

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